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Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Ant makes another deal; Sports ticketing consolidates; A new data breach at Shoney's; Simple's BBVA migration gets complicated.

Large companies are starting to embrace bot technology, with Mastercard, MoneyGram and Western Union all announcing new services.

Subway, Fresh Direct and The Cheesecake Factory are among the first to use Masterpass-enabled bots on Facebook Messenger to sell their wares over social media.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: New York forces tipping for Uber; Swift counters hack claims; Is Square planning a card?: Prisoners apply for credit; A new Phishing strain.

Ripple's distributed ledger platform has fed an appetite for cheaper and more efficient cross-border payments, but it may not measure up to the needs of a larger market. Ripple wants to scale its payment system to something resembling a large card network.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: The NSA reportedly hacks Swift; Stripe's publishing venture; Asia Pacific banks cool to collaboration; Canada embeds an egg on new bill's website.

Efforts to combine mobile wallets and loyalty programs have had mixed success over the years, but many companies are undeterred. Here are a few that are working to find the right mix of technologies.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Android Pay embeds in bank apps; Transferwise moving some offices because of Brexit; ECB's not ready for blockchain; Ant enters Indonesia.

The company is diversifying from its traditional payments processing business into a broad-based provider of payments technology and data services.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart goes after Amazon; Hong Kong experiments with blockchain; U.K. calls for fintech standards; London holds position as tech hub.